British Health Service Budget Cuts Mean Less Funding for Pathology Laboratories

Pathologists and Medical Laboratory Leaders to Gather For 9th Annual FiLM Conference Many pathologists and clinical laboratory managers outside of the United Kingdom (U.K.) remain unaware of its government budget-cutting initiatives that call for all sectors of government services to spend as much as 20% less money during the coming budget cycle. The nation’s oft-admired National Health Service (NHS) will also undergo unprecedented reforms even as it sees severe budget cuts. Critics of the...

Clinical Laboratory Innovators Gathering for “Frontiers in Laboratory Medicine 2010” on January 26-27, 2010

U.K.’s most popular pathology laboratory management event set for January 26-27, 2010 in Birmingham In the United Kingdom and Europe, pathology and clinical laboratory services are transforming at a steady rate. This is particularly true in the England, where the National Health Service (NHS) is actively emphasizing earlier diagnosis and intervention and chronic disease management in primary care by general practitioners. In turn, pathology laboratories in that country are aligning laboratory...
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